Page 54 • The HERALD • 26th June 2025 v THE HERALD - Proud to be part of your communityv Fred Hurst 023 8084 2191 or 07761 467217 • Grass Cutting • Garden Clearance • Hedge Cutting • Fallen Trees Cleared • Mini Digger Hire with Operator • Property Clearance • Small Demolition • Tractor Flail Cutting FULLY INSURED v FREE QUOTATIONS All Aspects of Garden Work Undertaken • Driveways • Paving • Artificial Grass • Turfing • Decking • Fencing • Hedge Cutting • Landscaping Hythe Garden Contractors Family company established 1977 For a free quotation please call 023 8084 3556 or 023 8084 0378 SJB Gardening Services RHS Qualified & Experienced Gardener specialising in quality hedge cutting, shaping & pruning ❀ General garden maintenance ❀ Garden clearance ❀ Hedge removal ❀ Planting ❀ Mulching ❀ Creation of new beds & borders ❀ Pruning & removal of trees to approx 8 metres ❀ Commercial properties All Work Fully insured Free quotations call Simon on 07443 649192 Telephone Richard 023 8084 9637 | Grass Cutting | Edges Trimmed | Hedge Trimming | PRESSURE WASHING OF DECKS, PATIOS & DRIVES | FENCE & SHEDS PAINTED QuickSmart Garden Services Professional & Reliable DOWN THE GARDEN PATH Gill is a orist who works from home in Bognor Regis. She has demonstrated to us before and her wit and artistic skills make the evening disappear too quickly! Gill can’t help but be pulled into charity shops and sees the most strange items as potential containers for her oristry displays! Her rst arrangement was surrounded by a lampshade mounted on a shoe rack. Both were sprayed black and the lampshade was circular with circles of acrylic making the shade. Her arrangement was delicate and framed by the stunning black container. She included pink gerberas - “hot lips”, anthuriums (avoid touching petals as they bruise), bright green pompom spray chrysanthemum and a variety of garden foliage incorporating textures, shine and a variety of colours and shades. Black midelino sticks gave additional space, as did contorted willow at the base. Number two was a tall hurricane glass with glass beads on the base, white sticks and fairy lights within. On top she used a white dish with oral foam secured. Firstly, to begin her asymmetric design, Gill used 4 stems of snake grass (equisetum). ese were bent on ‘Inspired By Containers’: Demonstration by Gill Homer by Debbie Thorne, Foresters Flower Club and spray roses lled the design and trailed over the greenery, of clematis, rubus tricolour, variegated hostas and leptospermum, with its delicate pink owers. Lastly was a magni cent arrangement with an urn for a container. Again a dish of oral foam strapped to the urn provided the mechanics. A traditional, grand design included white antirrhinums for height and movement, dotted throughout. Variegated euonymus and hostas draped and lled, with shiny large fatsia and other textured foliage. White sea lavender, pink carnations, pink rose and apricot rose blooms nished this so ly coloured design. Our next meetings are: 3rd July: Carole Norman. A presentation ‘Keeper of memories’, no meeting in August, 4th September: Sue Wall. Demonstration ‘Reuse & Recycle ll’ Meetings take place at Copythorne Parish Hall, SO40 2NZ at 7.30pm. All welcome. For more information contact Debbie orne on: 07769 830752. Gill Homer Gill’s arrangements nodes to form geometric shapes and incorporated as mechanics. A variety of foliage included little fatsia leaves, variegated mint and delicate stephanandra. Flowers included white lisianthus, white gerbera and white spray roses, giving a delicate, elegant design. A twiggy wreath ring with wires crossing over the middle space made for the 3rd container. is became a tall, full, triangular display by using white gladioli, white chrysanthemum blooms, white carnation blooms and so yellow roses. e complimentary foliage included large fatsia leaves, “baby blue” eucalyptus, hypericum and spotted laurel. A truly magni cent display. Next was a high metal stand with a dish of oral foam attached to it. e design was kept low and trailed elegantly down over the stand in a shallow crescent. It was white and lime green with pops of purple from spray carnations. White Avalanche rose blooms In Praise of Apples Bartley Horticultural Society’s next meeting is on Thursday 17th July for a talk by Charlotte Popescu titled ‘In Praise of Apples’. On Saturday 2nd August they will be holding their 112th Annual Show. Meetings take place on the third Thursday of the month at Copythorne Parish Hall, Pollards Moor Road, Copythorne SO40 2NW at 7.30pm. New members and visitors are always welcome. Visitor’s fee applies. For more information you can write to them at: Mavis Cottage, Pollards Moor Road, Copythorne, SO40 2NZ, call: 07789 352505 or visit their website: www.bartleyhs.org.uk Local Flower Show and Horticultural Show Schedules Now In! e schedules for Exbury Club’s Flower Show on Saturday 2nd August and Black eld Horticultural & Cra Show on Saturday 9th August are now available from the Herald o ce.
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